Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco's longshoremen and their waterfront employers seldom agree. But last week they loudly agreed that cargo space was being wasted, that ships steamed out through the Golden Gate with precious freights of airplanes, munitions, food dangerously and improperly stowed, that loading of vital supplies for Pacific outposts was being delayed and badly managed, and that Army & Navy officials in Washington were to blame...
...Most significant session was on Asia, Stanford's Wilbur presiding. Looking past the Golden Gate toward the once-"mysterious" East, the nation's educators decided that it is "an alarmingly neglected area in American schools and colleges...
...examples are certainly not the best of a particular band or player's work. Almost every big band of today that ever recorded a riff is mentioned, and there are some reflections on the quality of big-band arrangements. You'll find even the Alec Wilder Octet and the Golden Gate Quartet, not usually welcomed into the jazz household, but the line had to be drawn somewhere, and the door slammed before Hazel Scott and Carmen Cavallaro...
Musts for the "Silver Months" "We've wasted the golden months in which we could have got fully ready, the months in which we could have expanded our steel industry, our chemical industry, our copper industry, and all the others. . . . But we still have ten silver months-the months which remain...
...Something in this countryside suddenly exploded. . . . I flew drowned in a crop of trajectories as golden as stalks of wheat. . . . When a shell burst very near, the explosion rumbled along the plane like rock dropping through a chute...